I can’t summon much thanks for the 1% competitive grant scheme you’ve invented for programs like NWP that you wrongfully cut, but whatever thanks I can muster go the representatives and senators who carefully considered our requests and who met with NWP supports in Washington, DC, during the NWP’s Spring Meeting.

I will, however, offer up a million thanks when you rightfully restore NWP’s funding in ESEA 2. Take a look at your rhetoric and then take a look at the NWP’s mission, vision, and results. The NWP should be held up as an shining gem of good government; it should not be gambled away like a worn chip in some kind of partisan ante.

We will help you lead towards a meaningful reauthorization bill with our support of the NWP.

Without any reservation at all, thank you, #blog4nwp community, for your monumental support of the NWP. Trust that your efforts got us this far – in a position to compete for and win federal money – and that our future efforts, together with those of wise legislators and executives, will see funding restored for the NWP.

Here let me thank all the members of the #blog4nwp community who engaged with social media and/or government for the first time as part of the campaign. I learned so much from this campaign that I never knew beforehand; thank you for modeling courage in taking action for NWP.

Our goal remains 1,000 posts. Each post is a gift from us to the NWP and a message from us to our government: fund this deserving program and acknowledge its tremendous, nationwide impact.

Between the efforts of the NWP and the #blog4nwp community, we will make sure everyone knows when our next opportunity to support federal funding for the NWP comes around in Washington.

Stay tuned and stay energized. We can be a part of good government and the reestablishment of a sound and strong national education strategy that includes the NWP and champions its unique work in helping our future leaders find their voices.